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Isn't that horribly inefficient to stat a file multiple times in the sort? Wouldn't this be the perfect place for a Schwartzian transform (as employed by broquaint) or an 'orcish' maneuver?

Or am I missing some internal caching going on here?

Update: Got a bit carried away there with my adverb ... I just wanted to make sure that I hadn't missed anything. Thanks for the clarification, davorg.

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Re: Re: Re: Assesing file timestamp
by davorg (Chancellor) on Jan 30, 2003 at 14:17 UTC

    Well, I don't know about "horribly inefficient", but it's certainly not the fastest way to do it. broquaint's solution would be faster.

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